Re: [Emc-users] New CAD/CAM system to the market - SharpCam

2009-11-12 Thread John Thornton
I looked at it once but never did try it out. I don't remember why. Thanks for the link John On 11 Nov 2009 at 13:33, Hubert Bahr wrote: John Thornton wrote: Is there any facility in your software to calcualte feed and speeds for tools? I find this feature very helpful. I have four

Re: [Emc-users] Timing Belt Config

2009-11-12 Thread John Thornton
On 11 Nov 2009 at 19:27, Jeshua Lacock wrote: Thanks John, If I am using a servo with 512 PPR, is a step 1/512 of a revolution? If your servo drives take step and direction signals then they are just like steppers to the software. If it takes 512 steps to go one revolution and it takes

Re: [Emc-users] New CAD/CAM system to the market - SharpCam

2009-11-12 Thread John Thornton
I actually have the training video it was thrown in for a few dollars when they talked me into upgrading... John On 11 Nov 2009 at 13:07, Jon Elson wrote: a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: hi i am interesting in how much SharpCam software cost? How this CAM software

Re: [Emc-users] G61/G61.1 not working when put in inifilestartupfield

2009-11-12 Thread John Thornton
On 12 Nov 2009 at 10:34, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I ran your test code and sure enough when G64 is modal the way you program it will cut the corner. A couple of things to keep in mind when programming g code. Always retract some distance above the material before doing a lateral

Re: [Emc-users] New CAD/CAM system to the market - SharpCam

2009-11-12 Thread Ray Henry
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 06:25 -0600, John Thornton wrote: On 11 Nov 2009 at 13:33, Hubert Bahr wrote: John have you ever looked at Synergy by Weber Systems. This is what I use and it definately calculates feed and speed for your tools. You do have to tune it for your machine,

[Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, Instead of the parallel port or the NIC should we (someone) consider the video connection as an alternative interface. I would guess not all the pins are used and with some of the new programming tools it may be a viable choice. Just saying. thanks Stuart -- Few will listen, Of

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, Instead of the parallel port or the NIC should we (someone) consider the video connection as an alternative interface. I would guess not all the pins are used and with some of the new programming tools it may be a viable choice. Probably not :) All of

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Well rats - just goes to show what I know (or don't know). Nothing ventured - nothing gained. At least I learned something today. :) thanks Stuart -- Few will listen, Of the few who listen, fewer still will understand, Understanding does not mean believe, Of the handful who believe, most may not

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Overall, you'd be better off just getting a Mesa card :) Or, if you are not in a hurry, wait for the Beagle Board. Torsten is working on an RTAI port for it. I am hoping that the silence from him means he is hard at work, coding up the architecture-specific

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, I am in no hurry whatsoever. I just threw up a trial balloon to see the comments. With the GPU speeds I thought it might be possible to take advantage of that and solve some issues of connectivity. thanks Stuart On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I am in no hurry whatsoever. I just threw up a trial balloon to see the comments. With the GPU speeds I thought it might be possible to take advantage of that and solve some issues of connectivity. Well, on the subject of GPU speeds, there are other ways

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Alex Joni
Well, on the subject of GPU speeds, there are other ways that a good graphics card could help :) I'd love to see kinematics and/or TP calcs done on a GPU. Recent video cards do single precision floating point very quickly, and the newest set of GPUs can do double precision natively as

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: I'd love to see kinematics and/or TP calcs done on a GPU. You undoubtedly know this, but the Folding At Home project has clients that run on GPUs and also makes effective use of the Cell Processor in the Playstation3 Check out the OpenCL spec,

Re: [Emc-users] Timing Belt Config

2009-11-12 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:55 AM, John Thornton wrote: If I am using a servo with 512 PPR, is a step 1/512 of a revolution? If your servo drives take step and direction signals then they are just like steppers to the software. If it takes 512 steps to go one revolution and it takes two

Re: [Emc-users] Timing Belt Config

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jeshua Lacock wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:55 AM, John Thornton wrote: If I am using a servo with 512 PPR, is a step 1/512 of a revolution? If your servo drives take step and direction signals then they are just like steppers to the software. If it takes 512 steps to go one

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thank you very much for your help mark. 2009/11/11 Mark mpic...@gmail.com Oops, didn't pay attention to what you said. The power button still won't work; you must shutdown from within the os - either by clicking the shutdown icon or menu item on the screen, or with 'shutdown -h now' on

[Emc-users] Link a Bash script to a hal signal

2009-11-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, i'm finishing with the setup of my machine and i have one question.. How can i link a signal to a bash script? is it possible to make a component with the sript in it and then use the component to activate that script whenever i want? Thanks in adavance for your help.

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Yi-Shin Li
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.netwrote: Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, Instead of the parallel port or the NIC should we (someone) consider the video connection as an alternative interface. I would guess not all the pins are used and with some

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Stuart Stevenson
here is a real time usb project - I am not a programmer so I cannot evaluate this http://gna.org/projects/usb20rt the source is attached On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Yi-Shin Li y...@araisrobo.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.net wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Yi-Shin Li
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: here is a real time usb project - I am not a programmer so I cannot evaluate this http://gna.org/projects/usb20rt the source is attached The attached usb20rt.tar.bz2 is not extractable. The functional one is

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm interested in adopting the USB interface for servo/stepper motor control. It's cheap and widely available, although it has quiet significant latency issue. I'm working on resolving issues around USB interface. Here's a video for a SCARA robot controlled by EMC2 and a USB control

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I am in no hurry whatsoever. I just threw up a trial balloon to see the comments. With the GPU speeds I thought it might be possible to take advantage of that and solve some issues of connectivity If you are not using the graphics output for anything, then

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Well, on the subject of GPU speeds, there are other ways that a good graphics card could help :) I'd love to see kinematics and/or TP calcs done on a GPU. Recent video cards do single precision floating point very quickly, and the newest set of GPUs can do

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I'd love to see kinematics and/or TP calcs done on a GPU. Recent video cards do single precision floating point very quickly, and the newest set of GPUs can do double precision natively as well. Got a kinematics problem that requires 1000

Re: [Emc-users] new interface

2009-11-12 Thread Yi-Shin Li
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Yi-Shin Li wrote: I'm interested in adopting the USB interface for servo/stepper motor control. It's cheap and widely available, although it has quiet significant latency issue. I'm working on resolving issues

Re: [Emc-users] New CAD/CAM system to the market - SharpCam

2009-11-12 Thread Hubert Bahr
The 30 day trial is full function everything for 30 days. It reverts to cad only after 30 days. When you purchase the product you enter a new access code and it you then have that product and it doesn't cancel out. Actually if you use it incessantly during the trail period it can time